Edwin Bailey Elliott

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Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS[1] (born 1 June 1851, Oxford, England; died 21 July 1937 in Oxford, England) was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory. In 1892 he was appointed Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford.[2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote the book An introduction to the algebra of quantics, on invariant theory (Elliott 1913).[3]

Publications

  • Elliott, Edwin Bailey (1913) [1895], An introduction to the algebra of quantics. (2nd ed.), Oxford. Clarendon Press, JFM 26.0135.01

References

  1. ^ Turnbull, H. W. (1938). "Edwin Bailey Elliott. 1851-1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 424–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0026.
  2. ^ "Chairs and Professors of Universities in the United Kingdom". Who's Who Year-book for 1905. p. 138.
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Bailey Elliott", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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